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Thursday, 11 April 2019
If every brain cell has an atom of consciousness how does it understand its restless activity? It would feel like being in a vast economy, perhaps. It carries out its tasks and it gets the nourishment it needs, a tremendous hormone-soaked duty of responsiveness and exchange subject to unpredictably rhythms. Its life is giving and taking. Does it have the faintest suspicion of the mind to which it is contributing? How could it? And now all the brains are wired together in vast non-linear relational networks of flows, and soaked in passions - perhaps they too are giving rise to an unsleeping mind incomprehensible to us? Computational theories of mind would seem to require this. How is it that we know it is nonsense, that it doesn't figure among all the things we know we don't know, and also those we don't know that we don't know?
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